California Water Code Section 1242

CA Water Code § 1242 (2017)  

The storing of water underground, including the diversion of streams and the flowing of water on lands necessary to the accomplishment of such storage, constitutes a beneficial use of water if the water so stored is thereafter applied to the beneficial purposes for which the appropriation for storage was made.

(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)

Last modified: October 25, 2018